Mock BCBA EXAM #1

Mock BCBA EXAM #1 Determinism - ANSWER Cause and Effect, Lawfulness: If/Then statements. The world is orderly and predicable. Latency - ANSWER The time between an SD and the response: "Bryson get your shoes on (SD) - Bryson initiating getting his shoes on" The time from a reinforcer to the next response is a latency and not an IRT, even if the reinforcer is response-produced. Inner Response Time - ANSWER The time from the start of one response (behavior) to the start of the next response (behavior). The time between two responses. 3 Branches of Behavior Analysis - ANSWER 1) Behaviorism 2) Experimental Analysis of Behavior 3) Applied Behavior Analysis Behaviorism - ANSWER Behaviorism is the philosophy and theory of behavioral science, widely recognized due to the work of John B. Watson. Behaviorism was the predominate model in psychology from the early to mid 1900's and is based on the principle that psychology should be seen as a science. He argued that behavior is observable and should be objectively and scientifically measured. Watson was primarily concerned with the relationship between observable behaviors and environmental events rather than on internal processes. Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) - ANSWER the intensive study, under controlled conditions, of how environmental stimuli and consequences regulate an individual organism's behavior.This is operant behavior, behavior that is based on the consequences of that behavior. The creation of EAB showed that the environment creates learned behaviors and has a functional relation. It also allowed scientists to manipulate the environment in order to increase or decrease an operant behavior. The theory of EAB was a result Skinners findings of the S-R-S model or three-term contingency. ABA - ANSWER Applied Behavior Analysis is a scientific-based field of study that uses behaviorism as its philosophy and aims to improve socially significant behaviors through experimentation. ABA is an applied science that develops methods of changing behavior, and also, a profession that provides services to meet diverse behavioral needs. resistance to extinction - ANSWER Behavior that continues responding during the implementation of an extinction procedure. Ordinate - ANSWER y-axis on a graph, Vertical abscissa - ANSWER x-axis (horizontal) Exclusionary Time out - ANSWER Individual removed from space. 3 Types: (RPH) 1. Room/Time-Out Room 2. Partition Time-Out 3. Hallway Time-Out Permant product recording - ANSWER Recording tangible items or environmental effects that result from a behavior, for example, written academic work (also called outcome recording). DRL - AN